Canada has announced a peacekeeping effort in the West African country of Mali that includes six helicopters and some support troops.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, boosted by a landslide re-election win, flexed his nationalist muscles Monday, declaring that he will defend Russia's interests for another six years without an arms race.

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Mar 19th - 9:38am

France's ambassador to Poland has greeted a group of returning Polish climbers, one of whom helped rescue a French woman in the Himalayas.

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Mar 19th - 9:37am

The top U.S. military officer visited Afghanistan on Monday to evaluate the military campaign and ensure new American advisory teams and an upgraded Afghan Air Force are on target as the next fighting season with the Taliban looms.

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Mar 19th - 9:30am

The U.N. aid chief says humanitarian needs have doubled in Congo over the last year as a result of conflict, with 13 million people needing aid and over 2 million children suffering from "severe acute malnutrition."

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Mar 19th - 9:26am

Austria's Constitutional Court says it will consider whether a third gender should be an option for official records, taking up the case of a person who unsuccessfully sought to have their entry changed to "inter" or a similar word.

A court in northern Greece has convicted a Syrian refugee of having been a fighter with the Islamic State group in Syria, and sentenced him to eight years' imprisonment.

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Mar 19th - 8:40am

Slovakia's prosecutor general has asked Italian authorities to create a joint investigative team with their Slovak counterparts in the case of the slaying of a journalist and his fiancee that triggered a serious political crisis.

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Mar 19th - 8:30am

Emergency crews in Croatia struggled to contain a swollen river that reached record levels southeast of Zagreb Monday, while soldiers distributed food and drinking water to a section of Albania that has been flooded for two weeks.

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Mar 19th - 8:19am

The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):

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Mar 19th - 8:09am

U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to head the U.N. migration agency acknowledges a controversy over his social media posts on topics like climate change and Muslims but insists that "retweets are not endorsements" and says he wants to be judged on his actions as a humanitarian.

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Mar 19th - 8:09am

The head of a Spanish aid group said Monday he fears human trafficking charges may be brought against his staff after they refused to hand over a group of rescued migrants to the Libyan coast guard during a tense high-seas standoff and then took them to Italy.

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Mar 19th - 7:54am

British police say no sign of forced entry has been found at the home where a London-based Russian businessman died from a neck compression.

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Mar 19th - 7:36am

Bolivia made an emotional appeal Monday for the International Court of Justice to order Chile to enter talks over granting the landlocked South American nation access to the Pacific Ocean, saying the dispute will remain a source of conflict if it's not resolved.